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Friday, at 2:48 PRancesco Cancellato, while in the house near Milan, received a terrible notification about the cell phone.
“This is a message from WhatsApp”, read the message in Italian in the Italian language obtained by TechCrunch. “In December, WhatsApp, the activities of a spy software we attacked on your device. Our research shows that you can get a malicious file via Whatsapp and access your information, including messages stored on your device.”
“We have a change to prevent this special attack again. However, your device’s operating system can compromise due to a spy program,” he said.
Cancellato is the first target to come forward after the announcement of the hack program using the spy program using the spy program made with paragon solutions. As WhatsApp claims on Friday.
At that time, WhatsApp, 90 people of the spying campaign, including journalists, including members of civil society, including civil society, including journalists, including in Europe, said they are around journalists.
“I feel broken,” said Cancellato Techcrunch told Techcrunch that he thought the message was a scam or joke. “You are always thinking that a journalist can listen or spy, but it’s more than your own paranoism. When someone says it is true, you tend to believe that it is true, and you tend to think that something else is.”
Then he said it realized that it was real. “You ask yourself why? I want to say, what did they want from me?”
“The first question, what did they ask me? What did they go? And once they did my phone, my friends, my friends, the bank’s passwords, everything” said, “said Cancellato. “And then the third question is?”
Cancellato is the director Fanpage.itan Italian news site Recognized for research Corruption, organized crime, Catholic church and Youth wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s leading in Italy in Italy is the most ruling party.
For this Multi-part investigation Last year, Fanpage, Gioventù Melonian Melonyan, Since 2022, a group of Italian Fratelli D’Italia has sent a group. The investigation showed a video of several parties to developing racist notes against the Jewish and black, the people who played the nails and the Nazi slogans, the fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.
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Said cancellato decided come to the public Because as a journalist, his work is to report the news. But he said he did not want to speculate who was behind it. There are many unanswered questions at this point. Including that the phone is actually hacked or failed, and it also includes what hackers are and commanded the attack.
WhatsApp, Hack campaign has been conducted by the Paragon government manufacturer, which sells a product to spy on encrypted applications such as paragon solutions, paragon government, whatsapp and signal. As reported in forbes in 2021.
A WhatsApp spokesman did not respond to a request for a statement that the company could confirm that Cancellato could confirm the target.
Guardian Paragon solutions quoted a person close to the company that sells their products to 35 democratic customers. And the Israeli news outlet ynetnews declare Italian Paragon customer on Monday.
Monday, guardian declare Swedish Libyan activist Husam El Gomati was also reported that WhatsApp was one of the targets of the hack campaign. El gomati been vocal criticize Italy’s connection to Libya, an agreement to prevent immigrants among the two countries to prevent the Mediterranean.
TechCrunch, the Italian government press department’s email address, as well as the press service of Meloni’s press service via email and WhatsApp did not respond to Fabrizio Alfano.
Paragon solutions have grown a reputation to become a seller of responsible control technology. On the official websiteThe company says, “It provides concepts to disrupt our customers ethical tools, teams and attractive threats.”
Named Paragon Solutions Source He told New York Last year, the company’s immigration and customs execution of the company will be the result of a vetting process that previously allegedly made in September, the company could prevent other countries in use of Americans, but not the US government
Paragon solutions Obtained in December 2024 American private capital giant AE by industry partners.
Paragon solutions and AE did not respond to a request for the industry comments.
WhatsApp said he could contact a digital law group at Toronto University, including the Cancellata Message, Toronto University, Ethiopia, Mexico, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Spain.
And said, Saycellato, Techcrunch, who said that Fanataj contacted the authorities, said he did “what the message did.”
“In fact, the fact that the journalist is strange in a Western democracy,” said Cancellato, the company’s company was the company, so “Fanza attacked me,” he said.
